Weekday Stuff 28th Sept to 2nd Oct

[dlo]

Tonight I opened a 1993 Rossignol-Trapet Beaune 1er Cru "Teurons" - a remarkably virile yet elegant pinot revealing a captivating nose of sous bois, sap, game, truffle, oak spice, bing cherry and satsuma plum. The palate is sleek, yet focused, brimming with mostly sappy plum flavour, counterbalanced by zingy acidity and resolving finely honed but assertive grip. Just add an expansive medium to long finish that admirably compliments the preceding racy, quite feminine style and you have a most excellent example worthy of a score in the low nineties. For many years this maker has been off my radar. Perhaps it's time to revisit some of the better scribe's more recent reviews and check out this domain's performance.

[jeremy]

Late Birthday wishes to BB. Some great sounding wines, thanks for the run down.

2009 Karra Yerta Riesling- Even better than the 2008. Leaner, tighter, more intensity. I'm going grab a swag of these as I suspect as much I as enjoyed this now, it may even get better.

[monghead]

2007 Kooyong Estate Pinot Noir- Sub Good.

[Luke W]

Thanks for these Luke. I have a mixed six pack of the 98 limestone ridge, pyrus and st george so I should open them and get stuck in by the looks. I was contemplating taking the 1995 Lindemans reserve semillon to the inner west tasting group session next week so I'll give it a bit of airtime first.

Dear Kris

To be fair I drank the rest of the Pyrus last night and while it was better than the night before it didn't come close to the Limestone Ridge. Let me know how the St george opens up as I just didn't get round to it.

cheers

Luke

[odyssey]

1998 Limestone Ridge - beautiful classy lady of a wine with quite a bit of life in her yet
1998 Pyrus (which didn't overly impress)

Thanks for these Luke. I have a mixed six pack of the 98 limestone ridge, pyrus and st george so I should open them and get stuck in by the looks. I was contemplating taking the 1995 Lindemans reserve semillon to the inner west tasting group session next week so I'll give it a bit of airtime first.

Luke's comments convinced me to open a 98 Pyrus whilst watching the NRL grand final, it was really singing for us (even if the scoreboard wasn't)!

[Partagas]

1999 Houghtons MR Cabernet - JO gave this wine 85 - we gave it 93 - a lot nicer than the one he had obviously

cheers

Luke

Have had a heap of these gems and agree 85 is way off the mark. In fact if it was a value score I would give it 98-99. Great drinker.